PITY poor Vanessa Gusmeroli. On Tuesday night, the French figure skater gave an outstanding performance in the women’s short program and got good marks–from everyone except the Canadian judge. The judge from the Great White North scored Gusmeroli 0.3 points behind the average of the other eight judges on both technical merit and presentation, which is just about as far as you can go in black-balling someone without attracting attention.

Gusmeroli finished the night in tenth place. She won’t medal, but she would’ve had a shot to finish higher if the Canadian judge had been from, say, Mauritius.